Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

William Shakespeare

Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.

Bill Engvall

Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

Paul Johnson

I think there's a couple of reasons: One, I don't think they understand it. I think they see it and hear 'option' and think that's 3 yards and a cloud of dust, which couldn't be further from the truth.

It feels like we have to play a perfect game because every mistake is in the net. It feels like we've got a cloud over our heads.

Barbara Boxer

I think everybody remembers when Dr. Rice went on television and talked about the mushroom cloud that we could get, courtesy of Saddam Hussein,

Jim Jefferies

I think his head was still in the clouds from his goal.

It hasn't sunk in yet. I'm going to be on cloud nine the rest of the week and probably longer. This is amazing.

It is essential the commission be a place of the utmost integrity and there be no question as to whether it's tainted by the presence of one member or another. I fear we are now at a point where there is a cloud over this body.

I think we are going to continue to have this cloud hang over us.

I think that the decisive question will be to discover the dynamic of the atmosphere. Why are the clouds turning in the direction that we see? Why so quickly?

I think they had to do what they had to do, but it kind of clouds things.

Fay Vincent

Recent indications are up to 50 percent of the players in the 90s were using steroids. It puts a real cloud over that period in baseball.

recognize which clouds are going to develop (into a hurricane), and you can't go around coating the sea every place.

Geoffrey Moore

Rehnquist was a jurist who truly understood the role of the court. He did not let personal opinions cloud his interpretation of the Constitution. His opinions were grounded in the idea that he is to interpret the law, not create it.

Words can't even explain it. I'm still way up on cloud nine right now.

We're looking for any evidence of clouds forming at night, or fog, or haze.

Janine Shepherd

We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.

The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or web browsers are made by U.S. companies. When the rest of the world uses the net, they are effectively using U.S.-based services, making them a legal target for U.S. intelligence.

Amy Landecker

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

John Danforth

We're also saying that the investigation is critically important, that there is a cloud over the United Nations, there's no doubt about it, that the only way to dispel the cloud is to let the sunlight in, and that means a thorough investigation.

We haven't seen Earth before like this, and we're going to discover new things about Earth and clouds that we've not experienced before.

That's the silver lining in the terrible thousand-mile-wide cloud of that storm.

William Shakespeare

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

Right then I realized what this mission was about. There was the mushroom cloud and miles and miles of glare. We were all amazed.

William Blake

Piping down the valleys wild, / Piping songs of pleasant glee, / On a cloud I saw a child.

The laws of nature are simply such that in a molecular cloud there are just a few big clumps and quite many more smaller clumps.

James Madison

It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Edward Weston

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

The mayor has let her rage, her distaste for Ray Hunt, cloud her vision. We have a mayor who thinks she can make unilateral decisions that she cannot. This is not a monarchy.

Herman Wouk

This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.